THE SHAMROCK BROGUE 3-4-1916
TULSA IRISH ORGANIZE
Following the example set by Shamrock, the Irish men of Tulsa have perfected
an organization to be known as the Irish-American club, with Dr. P.a.
Mangan as president; Captain James Dawler, vice-president; A.F. Sweeney,
secretary; J.J. Madden, treasurer; Michael Burke, sergeant at arms;
and Pat Malloy, Tate Brady and James Eagan, executive committee.
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ORGANIZED SUNDAY SCHOOL
Through the efforts of Mrs. W.E. Rivers and Mrs. E.D. Miles, a Sunday
School has been organized in Shamrock. The meetings are held Sunday
morning at the school house, and to main the organization for the present
a weekly collection has been subscribed by the business and professional
men of the city. The school has a remarkably good attendance.
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WILL DIRECT A BAND
Dr. C.K. Roberts, the dentist, has announced his intentions of organizing
a band for Shamrock and he is ready to listen to any and all applicants
who mean business. He is an old band man, understands the game and is
willing to put in a good organization here instructing the youths who
may desire to belong. Members will be expected however to furnish their
own instruments.
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THE POOR FARM FOR CHILDREN
Announcement is made that Jack and Emma May Edwards are to be taken
to the Creek county poor farm to live as soon as their wounds are sufficiently
healed. These are the two small negro children, aged 8 and 10 respectively,
whose feet were frozen off because their step-mother Mrs. Edwards forced
them to remain several days and nights, locked in a corn crib, during
the coldest weather in January. When the children were found, it was
necessary to amputate the feet of both of them. Their father and step-mother
are being held in the county jail at Sapulpa for trial. They lived on
a farm about tem miles southeast of Shamrock.
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Come to Shamrock, if you want to see the liveliest spot in Oklahoma.
The sound made by saws and hammers is a continual music, new oil rigs
are penetrating the horizon daily, three hundred teams are now hauling
from the railroad yards, and business generally is on the increase.
A visit to Shamrock will put “pep” into the most discouraged
business man.
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ARMED WITH A SHOTGUN
Armed with a double-barreled shotgun and riding horseback, Jim Cornelius
rode over the hills in the locality looking for Dave Moss, the fellow
who on Thursday neglected to call out “fire in the hole”
when he put a heavy charge of dynamite under a stump, a mile north of
Shamrock on the construction of the railroad spur to the Hill oil camp.
As a result the flying stump struck Cornelius’ father and severely
injured him. The other workmen chased Moss out of their camp and he
left on foot, having not since been seen. So angry was young Bryan,
when he saw his injured father, that immediately he saddled his horse,
grabbed a shotgun and started in pursuit. The call “fire in the
hole” means for everybody to watch out and it is a warning that
all workmen everywhere obey.
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PRACTICING IRISH TUNES
Two bands have been engaged for St. Patrick’s Day celebration
on March 17 in Shamrock—the Bristow band and that of the Lashman-Lewis
company, which will conduct a street fair here during that entire week.
Both bands are now practicing Irish airs for that event. Several features
are now being contemplated including the bringing in of the blarney
stone several ton rock, to which twelve teams of oil field horses will
be hitched. Another feature will be St. Patrick driving out the snakes.
Invitations are now being sent out to Irish men and women all over the
state to assist in the celebration.
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WEARING GREEN NECKTIES
Because of the thoughtfulness of Roy Snyder of Springfield, MO., private
secretary to General Superintendent J.A. Frates of the Frates of the
Frisco lines, the members of the townsite force here, and also the Brogue
man, are all wearing the greenest of Irish green neckties. They are
for St. Patrick day’s celebration.
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READY FOR LEAP YEAR
“Robe” Norton, formerly of Dennis & Norton, the meat
market firm, says the Brogue has presented him to the community as a
married man, whereas in fact he is single and ready for Leap Year proposals.
He claims, in fact, that he had several fine matrimonial prospects started
and that the Brogue has spoiled his chances. It is hoped that this will
lead to his marriage.
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BLARNIES
Roy Homsher, traffic manager of the Sapulpa & Oil Field road was
here during the past week from the offices in Tulsa.
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank White of the Shamrock Café entertained his
father I.N. White of Earlton, Kansas, during the past week. Mr. White
is on of the pioneer settlers in that locality.
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Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Carroll of Wellston have located in Shamrock. Mr.
Carroll has rented the Evanoff building, second door west of the postoffice,
on Tipperary road, and engaged in business. Mr. Carroll was considered
one of the substantial citizens of Wellston.
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Mr. and Mrs. James Bennett of near Depew are making Shamrock their home.
He is interested with his brother, Ben Bennett, in general teaming contracting
business at the corner of Fourth street and St. Patrick avenue.
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Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Compton have moved to Shamrock from Drumright and
will make this city their home. He is an employee of the National Supply
company on East Tipperary road.
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Denny Cawley is calling the attention of the Brogue readers, this week,
to a half page ad in this issues, giving prices on his stock of clothing,
boots and shoes.
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S.J. Massad, the general merchant of the Star Mercantile company, was
a business visitor during the past week in Ft. Worth, Texas.
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Mrs. W.W. White who has a boarding house on the Oglesby lease south
of Shamrock was a visitor at the townsite office on Friday.
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Mr. and Mrs. B.F. Speaker of Robinson, Ill., are moving their mercantile
stock and household goods to Shamrock as a result of reading the Brogue.
They are the parents of H.E. Speaker of East Tipperary Road, employee
of the Hill Oil & Gas company. The elder Speaker will engage in
the grocery business on East Tipperary, having purchased two lots.
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Dr. M.H. Newman, physician and surgeon is now located in his new building
on the south side of Tipperary Road, where has equipped a modern “hospital”
on the second floor. He has also been appointed the surgeon for the
Sapulpa & Oil Field railroad.
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“Bill” McGuffey, long known in this locality as an automobile
driver out of Depew, has taken a position as pipe line walker with the
Oklahoma Natural Gas company and is walking the main pipe line daily
between Depew and the Shamrock station.
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C.C. Wagner manager of the Meisner Lumber company yards here, reports
a big increase in business recently, with carloads of material arriving
daily and with many wagonloads being taken daily into the oil field.
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Aughuse & Payne are putting in a general mercantile establishment
in the W.M. Berry building on West Tipperary Road, opposite the Colleen
theatre.
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E.J. Brady, well known oil field man, now with the Iron Mountain company,
is building a rooming house on Second street, between Bantry and Dublin
and will soon have it open for business.
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Manager Dunn of the Mid-Field Gas company of Oilton spent Tuesday in
Shamrock.
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Miss Eda McLaughlin, cousin of Miss Vivian Cottrell of the local telephone
exchange, is a trained nurse now located at Shamrock at the present
time at the Newman hospital. Miss McLaughlin comes from Park Avenue
hospital, Chicago.
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Mrs. C.K. Roberts, wife of the dentist, has arrived from Shawnee and
is now making Shamrock her home. They have rooms in the Jondahl building.
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Mrs. Frank Hudson and little son of Cushing, were in Shamrock Tuesday,
the guests of her husband at Frank’s café on Dublin avenue.
They expect to move to Shamrock.
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Attorney H.C. Speakman of Depew was a business visitor in Shamrock Tuesday
and it is understood that he was looking over the situation with a view
of locating here in the near future.
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Little Miss Elise Jenness, now attending school in Oklahoma City, was
here over Sunday visiting her mother, Mrs. Edna Jenness, and her grandmother,
Mrs. Anna Edmission at the Hotel Erin.
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Jim Thomas of the Chili King café was a business visitor in Tulsa
the first of the week.
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Messrs Mayes and Maxedon of the Maymax, at the postoffice, are installing
their new soda fountain.
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Mrs. J.T. Allen of Gwynne, the Gypsy Oil company’s field headquarters,
was the guest in Shamrock Tuesday of Mrs. G. H. Baker.
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President John Murphy of the Citizens Bank, which has been doing business
in a tent since the town opened, has the stone hauled on the ground
for the erection at once of a substantial stone home for the bank.
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H.C. Bland, manager of the Long Bell Lumber company says the Shamrock
yards of that concern are among the busiest of its entire string, scattered
throughout several of the western states and especially in the oil fields.
He reports business on the increase.
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George Steinhorst and F. Bruin, both of whom came here from Sapulpa
have opened the Shamrock Smoke House, just west of the Kork Café
on Tipperary Road. They have promised to take on Irish ways.
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Ira L. Hurst has completed his big team contractor barns on Second st.
between Cork and Bantry, and painted them green.
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Mrs. D.H. Middleton has joined her husband, of the Royal Barber Shop
here and they will live in the Charlie Johnson residence on Fourth street,
occupying the house with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Young.
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Mrs. H.R. Mayes and son arrived Tuesday from Tulsa to make a visit here
with her husband, one of the owners of the Maymax.
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G.N. Gibson, the jeweler located in the Jondahl building, has located
here from Leavenworth, Kan., and formerly conducted jewelry stores at
Blue Mound, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo. His family will locate in Shamrock
in the near future.
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J.B. Brent, the well known “movey” film maker of Chandler,
spent Tuesday in Shamrock with friends.
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Mrs. Alex Young of Oilton has joined her husband here and will make
this city her home. Mr. Young is one of the owners of the Royal Barber
Shop.
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L.E. Woodruff has completed his two-story addition to his building on
Tipperary Road and has opened one of the most attractive rooming houses
in the city the Belfast, with a lunch counter in connection.
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Mrs. Roy Maxedon, whose husband is one of the owners of the Maymax has
arrived from Jennings and will make this city her home.
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Walter R. Eaton, member of the legislature, spent Saturday and Sunday
in Shamrock at the townsite office.
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Al Sanders, owner of the X-10-U-S café, first door east of the
Eneff Bakery, located here from Tulsa where he was the owner of a café
for some time and is an old hand at the business.
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Ivan Cannon of Cushing has taken a position with John O. Pyle at the
101 barber shop, and Mrs. Cannon will make Shamrock her home in the
near future.
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Al Campbell and wife are in charge of the railroad commissary quarters,
near the depot. Mr. Campbell is a construction engineer, formerly foreman
on the Hill Oil & Gas company leases, and is also an electrical
and mechanical engineer of many year’s experience.
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Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Jones of Oklahoma City have located in Shamrock and
are building a residence on Second street, between Bantry and Dublin.
Mr. Jones is a carpenter contractor.
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John J. Gleese of El Paso, Texas, and Joe Gleese of Drumright were visitors
in Shamrock, the past week, the guest of their brother, Frank Gleese
at the townsite office.
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Blanken Brothers are the sole agents for this locality for the Ford
cars, either runabouts or touring. They have recently increased their
Shamrock garage to double the former capacity.
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Mrs. M.H. Newman, wife of Dr. M.H. Newman has moved their household
goods here from Cushing and they have their apartments on the second
floor of the Newman building on Tipperary Road.
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Mr. and Mrs. Brown of Verden, Oklahoma were visitors during the past
week with a view of locating here.
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C.L. Bloom of Independence, Kan., was in Shamrock several days the past
week with William Kirwen, the drilling contractor.
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President J.B. Gilliland of Holdenville of the Southwest Oil company
is making the Erin hotel his headquarters at the present time. His company
is drilling three wells close to Shamrock.
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Miss Laura Dicks of Drumright has taken a position with C. Cranston
in the Shamrock Printing company’s office.
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Fred Crain of Vergennes, Ill., will engage in the grocery business in
Shamrock, at the corner of Fourth street and Dublin avenue and will
erect a building at once. He was in Shamrock, during the past week with
O.W. Callis of Sapulpa, the two men having formerly been partners in
Ill.
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General Manger C.F. Hopkins, Superintendent H.B. Ganlee and other officials
of the railway company have a new 15-horsepower mother car for business
over their lines.
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Ben Bennett & Company, teaming contractors have started feed store
in connection with their business, corner of Fourth street and St. Patrick
avenue.
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H.J. Dwyer of the Shamrock News Stand just east of the townsite office,
has put in a full line of chocolates and other candies.
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E.O. Oliver, a grocer and meat market man of Depew, was here Monday
as the guest of Dr. C.K. Roberts.
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A.D. Rohrer of Drumright has located in Shamrock and is putting in a
rooming house on Second street, between Bantry and Dublin avenues.
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C.W. Price, a driller on the Ingalls lease of C.B. Shaffer, has built
a residence on Second street between Bantry and Dublin, and has leased
it to Manager Noble of the Oil Well Supply company’s Shamrock
house. Mr. Price came to Shamrock from the Pennsylvania oil field.
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F.E. Tacker, who comes to Shamrock from Texas, has bought the Dave Mitchell
lot on East Tipperary Road, and has completed a building and put in
a general store. Mitchell has gone to Arkansas to live.
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Engineer Warren of the Sapulpa & Oil Field road has purchased a
lot on East Tipperary road, will erect a residence and bring his family
here from Corsicana, Texas.
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W.L. McAtee, one of the engineers at the Shamrock station of the Oklahoma
Natural Gas company, is completing a business building on Tipperary
road, near the corner of Fourth street and Killarney avenue.
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Frank Russel, one of the chiefs of construction on the Sapulpa &
Oil Field railroad, will soon move his family to Shamrock from Oklahoma
City.
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F.N. Jondahl, the furniture man of Shamrock and Stroud spent several
days here last week with his brother, Harry Jondahl, manager of the
Shamrock store.
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Mrs. L.G. Miller and baby have arrived from Oilton and will make Shamrock
their home. Mr. Miller is the owner of the Kork Café on Tipperary
Road.
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Roy Snyder, private secretary to General Superintendent J.A. Frates
of the Frisco lines, was a Shamrock visitor on Thursday, from Springfield,
Missouri.
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Mrs. C.B. Lake and son of Kiefer were visiting here with her husband,
Justice of the Peace C.B. Lake, during the past week, accompanied by
his sister, Mrs. Ada B. Osborne of Russell, Ky.
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